October 2026

2.3 Curtis Yarvin and Nick Land

  • Yarvin: neo-reactionary who wants a CEO-monarch and coined "the Cathedral." RAGE dates to 2012 (The Verge, above) [V-s].
  • Land: "The Dark Enlightenment," a multi-part online essay from March to December 2012, systematized Yarvin's neocameralism and "exit" (text) [V]. He was in the CCRU in the 1990s [R].
  • Influence path: Land → Andreessen's manifesto (2.4). Yarvin → Vance (2.2) and Thiel (Tlon).
  • Doesn't show: religious prophecy. Land's "hyperstition" is secular and anti-humanist, and Yarvin is a secular monarchist.